Wolf Blass Grey Label Langhorne Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2019
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2023 - 2031
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If there is any region that screams Blass, it is surely Langhorne Creek. Many of his early efforts hailed from here and it has always provided serious contribution to various blends. That generosity of fruit and flavour associated with the region has become a hallmark of Blass reds.
This one has a vibrant purple colour with lovely softness and plushness exuding from the glass. Chocolate, cassis, black fruits, cherries. Plenty of vanillin oak, as you’d expect from Blass (the motto was once, ‘no wood, no good’), but it is nicely balanced. Seamless, juicy, delicious – what more could you possibly want from a red? It finishes with good length and plenty of grip – possibly sticking forth just a fraction too much at this stage, but a minor quibble. There is plenty of time to contemplate when best to drink this wine – any time over the next decade should work. A fine red, so very much in the style of Blass.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
